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Kinect SDK v1.5 - Now with VB Samples !!!

The Visual Basic Team, May 25, 2012
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As developers start to realize the full potential of Microsoft Kinect and new hardware is made available for the PC it’s really great to see the Kinect team provide some sample support for VB de...

SSIS Script Task, Extracting attachments from Outlook 2007 in VB.NET

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 24, 2012
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This is an alternative for "Extracting mails and attachments from Outlook 2003 in VB.NET"....

Many boxes of FREE computer books if you can pick them up ....

ASP.NET Announcements, April 20, 2012
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at age 65, i can not get work ... so we've had to sell our house and are moving to a smaller home with no basement about 45 km away ... if i could, i'd take the books with me ... but sadly, i'm forced...

Classic ASP Multi-upload Image Gallery

The Code Project Latest Articles, April 17, 2012
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A VBScript application to manage image galleries based on the SimpleViewer Flash image gallery....

JustCode Release History : Q1 2012 SP (version 2012.1.321)

Telerik News RSS Feed, March 22, 2012
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JustCode Q1 2012 SP1 (v2012.1.321) Major highlights Added support for Visual Studio 11 Beta Improvements Added support for Visual Studio 11 Beta New Visual Studio project item templates for ...

10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C#

Simple Talk, March 7, 2012
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After having converted a whole lot of training materials based on VB.NET into C#, Andy Wise Owl Brown decided to write a tongue-in-cheek rant whilst he could still remember the pain-points. 'Convert t...

Almost Vermont IT Jobs: .NET devs needed in Lebanon, NH

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., March 7, 2012
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COMPUTAC INC is looking for PROGRAMMERS with experience in Microsoft VB6, VB.NET,  ASP.NET, Win Form Development, N-tier design concepts and MS SQL server database (design, maintain, and administ...

Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!

The Visual Basic Team, February 29, 2012
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As you may have read in Jason’s announcement, today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download.  This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full plat...

Writing F# Type Extensions for Nullable

Did it with .NET, February 18, 2012
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A type extension is F#s syntax for augmenting an existing type with new members similar in spirit to C# and VBs extensions methods. I employ type extensions to make life a bit easier w...

VB.NET Image Filters

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 3, 2012
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A collection of 10 easy to use image filters in VB.NET...

DataSet to Excel File Conversion using ExcelLibrary

The Code Project Latest Articles, January 12, 2012
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ExcelLibrary implementation sample to convert DataSet to Excel file in VB.NET...

Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background

peterkellner.net, January 3, 2012
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Yes, this is JavaScript Im debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Pre Release.  Just like c# and vb!  A picture is worth hundreds of words, so, here is the picture (and of course the words will fol...

Beginner's Guide: How to Implement log4net in VB.NET Web Application

The Code Project Latest Articles, January 3, 2012
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Simple implementation guide for log4net in a VB.NET web application....

New VB XNA Sample - showing Xbox, Windows and Phone targetting

The Visual Basic Team, December 12, 2011
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For all those who have started venturing into developing windows phone applications, there are quite a few samples utilizing Silverlight, but the XNA content has been a little bit light.  &n...

VB Support for Microsoft Surface 2.0

The Visual Basic Team, November 22, 2011
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Touch screen are great and we’ve seen their use on phone and slates but sometimes these screens still just are not big enough.     For those who desire bigger touch screens, ...

Putting back functionality left out of VB Core - ( If you can't live without Mid when writing WP7 apps ;-) )

The Visual Basic Team, November 10, 2011
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For development of windows phone applications a new feature was added to the Visual Basic compiler known as VB Core. This is a reduced version of the runtime designed to allow development for a broade...

Halloween: VB Style!

The Visual Basic Team, October 31, 2011
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Imagine this. It’s Halloween. You’ve got a costume party to go to at 7 but there’s one small hiccup – you’ve got no costume. As a VB programmer you’re used to comin...

Introducing the Microsoft Roslyn CTP

C# Frequently Asked Questions, October 19, 2011
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By Kevin Pilch-Bisson As Soma mentioned earlier, today we’ve made a Community Technology Preview (CTP) available for download! The Roslyn project is a forward looking effort to make the wealth...

Introducing the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP

The Visual Basic Team, October 19, 2011
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(Begin dramatic movie trailer music, slow PowerPoint slide show with cliché sound effects) October 2006 –VB Architect-emeritus Paul Vick responds via his blog to question by some co...

Announcement: Namespace Global

The Visual Basic Team, September 27, 2011
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There’s a new feature coming to VB, and already included in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. The feature is called Namespace Global and it’ll make your life easier… if you p...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Visual Basic (VB) Call Hierarchy

The Visual Basic Team, September 20, 2011
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Default: CTRL + ALT + K Menu: View | Call Hierarchy Command: View.CallHierarchy; EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.ViewCallHierarchy Versions: Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Languages: VB   With ...

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Metro style app samples - C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript

Recently Posted Code Samples on MSDN, September 13, 2011
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This sample pack includes all the Metro style app code examples developed for Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The samples in this pack are available in in C#, C++, VB.NET, and JavaScript. The sample pack ...

tile_static, tile_barrier, and tiled matrix multiplication with C++ AMP

The Moth, September 12, 2011
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We ended the previous post with a mechanical transformation of the C++ AMP matrix multiplication example to the tiled model and in the process introduced tiled_index and tiled_grid. This is part 2. t...

Scheduling thread tiles with C++ AMP

The Moth, September 11, 2011
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This post assumes you are totally comfortable with, what some of us call, the simple model of C++ AMP, i.e. you could write your own matrix multiplication. We are now ready to explore the tiled model,...

Matrix Multiplication with C++ AMP

The Moth, September 10, 2011
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As part of our API tour of C++ AMP, we looked recently at parallel_for_each. I ended that post by saying we would revisit parallel_for_each after introducing array and array_view. Now is the time, so ...

Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit - Updated with VB Source

The Visual Basic Team, September 8, 2011
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An update to the training kit has been made providing Visual Basic developers with sample code for the development features of Dynamics CRM and help them build applications using Microsoft Dynamics CR...

Windows Phone, Surface, Touch and Kinect comes together in seamless computing demo

MSDN: Coding4Fun, September 5, 2011
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This is another "the future is coming sooner than we might think" (also known as a "Wow. that's just cool, I want that") story showing some amazing integration between the Windows Phone 7, Surface...

Updated Samples for WP7 Developers

The Visual Basic Team, August 27, 2011
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For those VB developers who are developing (or keen to start developing) for WIndows Phone 7.  The samples have been updated and as you'll notice virtually all of them are in both C# and VB. http...

Marshal variable length array of structs from C to VB.NET

The Code Project Latest Articles, July 24, 2011
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How to pass a variable length array of structs from C to VB.NET....

How to get data in and out of your Exel workbook by converting to and from JSON

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, June 30, 2011
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Excel: How get data into and out of your Workbook by converting to and from JSON format. Includes downloadable examples and VBA classes.  read moreBy bruce mcpherson...

"Hello World" in C++ AMP

The Moth, June 27, 2011
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Some say that the equivalent of "hello world" code in the data parallel world is matrix multiplication :) Below is the before C++ AMP and after C++ AMP code. For more on what it all means,...

Kinnect SDK For PC - VB Samples available.

The Visual Basic Team, June 16, 2011
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Today, Microsoft announced the Kinnect SDK for PC    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/download.aspx    VB Samples are there at launch and available...

No Netduino hardware? Go Virtual. The VirtualBreadboard has (some) Netduino support

MSDN: Coding4Fun, June 3, 2011
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Not having the Netduino hardware myself, I used to feel a little left out (of course I could just buy one, they are not expense, but that's besides the point . What I kept looking for was some kind of...

C# and VB.NET - Differing namespace conventions

JonGalloway.ToString(), June 2, 2011
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Recently, while reviewing the VB.NET translation of the MVC Music Store tutorial, I noticed that none of the controllers / models / classes in general have namespaces. I was going to blow up on the pe...

VB Support for the XNA platform

The Visual Basic Team, May 25, 2011
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  With the release of the Mango Toolset, Visual Basic support for XNA and Windows Phone has now been added. VB resources include VB XNA documentation and VB WP7 code samples and starter kits a...

Happy 20th Birthday Visual Basic!

The Visual Basic Team, May 20, 2011
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Twenty years ago, May 20th, 1991 at Windows World, in Atlanta, Microsoft founder Bill Gates demoed Visual Basic 1.0. Twenty years later, the 10th version of this latest in an unbroken line of Microsof...

devtoolcafe Interview: SpreadsheetGear founder & CEO, Joe Erickson

ASP.NET Announcements, May 16, 2011
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  JP: Hi Joe, Thanks for taking the time to talk with devtoolcafe this week.  When was SpreadsheetGear LLC founded? JE:  I started SpreadsheetGear in June of 2003 after 20 years working...

Interview: SpreadsheetGear founder & CEO, Joe Erickson

ASP.NET Announcements, May 14, 2011
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  JP: Hi Joe, Thanks for taking the time to talk with devtoolcafe this week.  When was SpreadsheetGear LLC founded? JE:  I started SpreadsheetGear in June of 2003 after 20 years working...

Avail 1 month free trail of our -Test Automation Framework (CI-TAF)

ASP.NET Announcements, May 4, 2011
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I am Ravi Client partner at CI Global Tech. we are a product development company engaging with ISV's in North America. We are having long term business relationship with leading ERP Company in North ...

Redis Tutorial Part II: Using Redis as a Pub/Sub Medium

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 2, 2011
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Create a simple redis pub/sub client pair in VB.NET...

The Temple of VB (Matt Gertz)

The Visual Basic Team, April 29, 2011
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Hi, all! It's been a while since I've posted to this blog, and a lot has happened in my world since then.  Though I've been pretty busy on our engineering systems team, I took a little time off l...

A concise description of the C# static modifier for former VB developers

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, April 29, 2011
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Fields declared with the static keyword are referred to as static fields or static data., while the other fields like FirstName are called instance fields. So an instance field belongs to an object, a...

WebMatrix Series #1: How to configure Visual Basic Templates in WebMatrix

The Visual Basic Team, April 27, 2011
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Microsoft WebMatrix is an exciting new product that makes the creation of custom ASP.NET Web sites possible without all the complexity of the full Visual Studio environment. Another advantage of Micro...

NuGet 1.3 Released

youve been HAACKED, April 26, 2011
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In continuing our efforts to release early, release often, Im happy to announce the release of NuGet 1.3! Upgrade! If you go into Visual Studio and select Tools > Extension Manager, click on the U...

How to Transpose table in MS Access using VBA code

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, April 22, 2011
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How to Transpose table in MS Access using VBA code  read moreBy Devil Scorpio...

Creating multi-series Bubble Charts in Excel

Tom Hollanders blog, March 28, 2011
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Bubble Charts are a great way to visualise data that has three numerical values for each point. Two of the values are plotted on the X and Y axis, while the other is represented via the diameter of th...

Blog Series 2: Animation in Visual Basic: 1. How to create a winking eye, a bouncing ball, and an animated text

The Visual Basic Team, March 23, 2011
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A picture is worth ten thousand words. Whereas a moving picture is worth a hundred thousand words! Moving picture or an animation has more visual appeal. We can understand concepts better when explain...

Published Applications AKA _PublishedApplications

Fervent Coder, March 21, 2011
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Less maintenance. Less work to package during your automated builds. Too easy. Remember Our Old Friend _PublishedWebsites? Youve probably seen the _PublishedWebsites folder when building websi...

Blog Series #1: Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series: How to create an accelerometer for Windows Phone 7

The Visual Basic Team, March 18, 2011
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Previously, I explained how to create a panorama and pivot effect for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create an accelerometer for Windows Phone 7. An...

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series: How to create an application bar for Windows Phone 7

The Visual Basic Team, March 4, 2011
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In our last post, I explained how to create a custom tilt effect application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create an application bar for Window...